On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, J. David Boyd wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. > > On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, J. David Boyd wrote: > > > >> Is there some setting that tells Cygwin to use/not use the windows > >> clipboard. > >[snip] > >> For the longest time, I have been merryly cutting and pasting between > >> firefox, notepad, a bash shell, emacs, etc, all using ctrl-insert and > >> shft-insert. > >> > >> Sometime in the recent past, this no longer works. I can cut and > >> paste between all of my cygwin programs no problem, but there is no > >> communication with the windows side of things. > >[snip] > > There is no 'Properties' item. I'm running in Cygwin X-windows, and > doing everything under X. My bash is running in an xterm, started with > this command line (without the line break, of course): > > xterm -sl 5000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -cr red -fg black -bg white -e > /usr/local/bin/bash -l & Ah, so you're using an xterm. This makes the question off-topic for this list. I've redirected my reply to the right list, and set the Reply-To: accordingly. Please remove <cygwin at cygwin dot com> from further discussion of this, unless it veers back to something relevant to Cygwin at large, and not just Cygwin/X. > My best example would be to wget something from a URL in a file. > > Last week (two, three weeks ago?) I would have used the mouse to > highlight the text in firefox (notepad, openoffice.org), then pressed > Ctl-Ins to copy it into the clipboard. (Or clicked on copy in the menus, > it worked either way.) Then I would have moved into my xterm, and type > 'wget ' and then pressed shift-ins, to paste from the clipboard. I hit > enter, and wget worked perfect. > > Now, I do it all the same, but the shift-ins pastes whatever I last > ctl-ins from a cygwin-X window. > > I don't recall changing any settings anywhere, but something might have > changed in some internal Cygwin settings file, somewhere... This has nothing to do with Cygwin settings -- it's an internal setting of the X server. My guess would be that either the clipboard thread isn't starting properly, or you need to run xwinclip instead of using the -clipboard parameter. Looking at (and posting) /tmp/XWin.log would help. The X clipboard settings are generally confusing -- they have at least 4 clipboards, only one of which corresponds to the system clipboard. As far as I know, the recent X servers are pretty good at doing the copy/paste with the system clipboard, but there's always the possibility of misconfiguration or some other factor that affects this. Perhaps the people on the Cygwin/X list will have more helpful comments. > > If this doesn't help, please describe exactly what you're trying to > > do, what worked before, and what doesn't work now. Getting some > > information about your system as requested in > > <http://cygwin.com/problems.html> would also help. > > Okay, here is the output from my cygcheck -s -r -v output: > (sorry, but it goes on for quite a while...) > [snip] That's why we prefer it attached to the message, rather than included inline. At first glance[*], nothing looks wrong. HTH, Igor [*] For the Cygwin/X folks: rather than waste bandwidth, the original post on cygwin@ was <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg00204.html>. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/